MCPS curriculum RFP-Second Attempt

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08/31/2018 07:04

Subject: Re:MCPS curriculum RFP-Second Attempt

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Anonymous wrote:Please share this with any good curriculum providers
http://procurement.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/home/Bid_Record/1638

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thx, I read the RFP file (last one listed) and am familiar with legal docs.
no mention of science or social studies in either ELA or math requirements or preferences. Guess MCPS will whip that up?
mentioned 45-60 minutes of daily ELA and of daily Math so that frees up 60 minutes versus current C2.0. Wonder what MCSP will do with that time? More gym, A day for science, B day for social studies?
no mention of physical textbooks or work books, just digital stuff for teachers, parents, students.

Yeah. I wonder if that’s an attempt to stack the decks for Discovery Education which has a lot of online content, as opposed to a Singapore math type curriculum which is traditional materials. Also, there’s a section there where the curriculum provided has to describe how their curriculum matches up to MCPS’s framework that seems tailor made for an ex-McPS employee to write

This is Discovery's team, which hasn't been updated with ELA.
https://www.discoveryeducation.com/who-we-are/meet-the-curriculum-team/

Remember, however, that they did snatch Jim Fliakas, who was the ELA supervisor for MCPS. So they have their bases covered.

not sure if they'd work with MCPS again after what happened - or if they'd move on to another larger system

But they do have all the core contents covered.

They'd be smart to focus on the arts next.

Huh? MCPS is the 8th largest system in the country. There aren't many larger systems and most of them have selected their curricula.

oh no, novice

How long do you think systems - under our "newest" accountability mandates - actually stick to a curriculum framework?

I recently left MCPS for a smaller system. In my 20+ years, I've seen . . .
- complete autonomy (minus any standards) to
- Core Learning Goals (CLGs - anyone remember those?) with partially standardized guides to
- CCSS and standardized guides.

Courses, particularly in science, changed all the time to reflect the latest benchmarks.

There's ALWAYS a larger system making changes. MCPS is NOT the end all in terms of educational companies profiting off children. There are plenty of other larger systems that highlight the achievement gap.

NP. You sound like the novice re government contracts. Let's assume you are right and that means other districts change curriculum every 4-5 years on average. That means there is probably 1, maybe two, other districts this year. Landing MCPS, the second or third largest contract available this year, would be a huge coup for MCPS.

Even if all other seven larger districts were looking for curriculum now, landing MCPS would still be a huge deal since it is still a huge contract. That there may be a handful of larger companies is utterly irrelevant since company X would be happy to serve all the districts- it is not a situation where they have to pick and choose and would select the larger.